Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (1962). First Edition. Small 8vo, 90pp; illustrated boards. Inscribed by Boborowski on the front flyleaf to the poet and translator Christopher Middleton, signed "J.B." Loosely inserted are the publisher's promotional flyer and two pages of Middleton's handwritten notes for a review, apparently for the Times Literary Supplement..... More
New York & Penland: The Jargon Society, 1969. First Edition. Narrow 8vo, unapg. pamphlet in wrappers, saddle-stitched. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by both Johnson and Davenport, this being number 250; it was printed on Fabriano and Cockerell paper with a central insert of French marbled paper. The..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1967, 1968. First editions. 2 vols, 12mos, [160] and [192]pp; original printed wrappers with $1.45 prices. Correct first editions of McLuhan and Fiore's popular works. McLuhan's visionary ideas -- and the famous phrase "The medium is the message" had already been in circulation for some time..... More
![Kamienny Swiat; [World of Stone]. Tadeusz Borowski](/pictures/thumb/206058.jpeg?v=1609872322)
[Krakow]: Czytelnik, 1948. First Edition. Small 8vo, 143; original printed wrappers. One of two collections of stories that Borowski based upon his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The works, collected in English translation as "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," are some of the most powerful and harrowing..... More
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Brooklyn: Assembling Press, 1967. 4to, unpag; staple-bound and glued into printed glossy wrappers. As with other iterations of this irregularly issued anthology, contributors were invited to submit up to 4 pages for an edition of 1000. As long as it could fit into the 8-1/2 X 11 inch format, no..... More
[New York: Grossman Publishers, Inc., 1972]. First Edition. 4to, title page, introduction and 135 loose leaves housed in publisher's three-ring binder with printed label on front. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this avant-garde anthology followed in the footsteps of Richard Kostelanetz's influential "Assembling" series, gathering contributions from a range of..... More
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Small 4to, unpag.; printed wrappers. An excellent presentation copy, with a lengthy inscription and drawing (a cow leaning against a barn) for fellow poet Russell Edson. In addition, Bly has made a small ink emendation of the text in one of the illustrations..... More
New York: The Floating Bear, 1961-1968. 29 separate numbers of this mimeographed publication, varying pagination; each item 8-1/2 X 11 in., stapled, as issued, and folded for mailing. A substantial run of one of the most consequential and elusive periodicals of the later Beat era. Floating Bear was founded by..... More
London: Richard Ford, 1733. First Edition. 8vo, xii, [4, Table of Contents], 403, [1, Contents of the Scheme of Ontology]; contemporary panelled calf. Philosophical work by the clergyman better-known for his books of hymns. With an elegant bookplate with the Griffith family crest; "Thos. Griffith" signed to the title page..... More
London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et al, 1781. First London edition thus titled. Four vols., 8vos, fronstispiece, vii, 480; iii, 471; [ii], 462; [ii], 505; contemporary tree calf with gilt spines and red leather labels. The frontispiece portrait of Johnson, engraved by Thomas Trotter after Joshua..... More
London: B. Crosby, 1794. First Edition. Three vols., small 8vo., 293, [1, errata]; 285; 304pp; modern three-quarter calf and brown cloth with gilt spines; (the binder erroneously stamped the date "1797" to the spines), t.e.g. A complete copy of Godwin's celebrated novel, with all half-titles. Appearing amid the intellectual ferment..... More
London: B. Lintot [R. Dodsley, H. Lintot, L. Gilliver, J. Clarke] T. Cooper, 1736-1739. Six vols. in seven, crown 8vos, 198, 159, 168, 198 [2], 258 [i.e. 259], 240, 236pp; contemporary calf. Mixed edition of this early set of Pope's Works that appeared in piecemeal fashion under varying imprints owing..... More
London: R. Dodsley, 1737. First Edition. 4to, xi, 335, [1, errata]pp; calf-backed marbled baords of the period. A nice copy with geneous margins of Glover's epic poem. It was semi-anonymous, with his name appearing only at the end of the preface, and it proved highly popular in its time. It..... More
Paris: Delaunay, Bossange et Masson, 1818. Second Edition. Three vols., 8vos., x,440, 424, 394pp; [original?] marbled board. A nice set with all half-titles. More
Various places: 1952-1954. 18 separate items, varying sizes and formats. An excellent group of items generated in the effort to win support for the condemned couple, who were executed as spies in 1953 in one of the most bitterly contested legal cases of the Cold War. Includes: -The Rosenberg Case: A...... More
Paris: Paulin, 1844. Two vols, 8vos, 562, 567pp; morocco-backed marbled boards with nicely gilt spines. Unspecified, posthumous edition of Mme. Necker's major work, an influential study of the education of women, attractively bound. More
London: Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811. 4to, 182pp; six aquatint engravings as well as an agraved dedication leaf; three-quarter morocco and pebble-grain cloth, t.e.g. The first edition with these illustrations, drawn by Newell in support of theory that he had identified the Irish village that inspired Goldsmith's great poem. The..... More
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1762. Second Edition. 4to, frontispiece, [16], [i]-xvi, 1-270pp; later pebble-grain cloth and morocco with marbled endpapers and edges. The second edition adds the frontispiece portrait of MacPherson, engraved by William Bond after Joshua Reynolds. More
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1762. First Edition. 4to, [16], [i]-xvi, 1-270pp; full contemporary calf. A nice copy of the first edition of the greatest literary hoax of the 18th century. Although suspicions about MacPherson's authorship were almost immediate -- most notably from Samuel Johnson --..... More
London: Printed fpr W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1784. Two vols., 8vos; xiii, [3], [1]-404; [viii], [1]-435pp; contemporary tree calf. A decent set of the great literary hoax. Bound with both half titles, publisher's ad leaf in the front of the second volume, and all terminal blanks..... More
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935. First Edition. 8vo, 83pp; black cloth with decorative emblem on front in silver, spine stamped in silver. The poet and journalist's first book, with his own introduction. A significant figure in the "Black Chicago Renaissance" where he was involved in workshops with contemporaries including Richard..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. First Edition. Folio, 114pp; parchment-backed boards. Early monograph on the eminent painter of the Ashcan School, published for subscribers in alimited edition of 990 hand-numbered copies. Uncommon, especially in dust jacket. More
Huntington, N.Y. Pigeon Hill Press, (1926). First Edition. 4to, 200pp; errata label mounted facing the half-title; three-quarter morocco, t.e.g. Catalogue of Quinn's art collection ("exclusive of Negro and Chinese" -Editor's Note) that followed a memorial exhibition of the collection at New York's Art Center. Includes a foreword by Forbes Watson..... More
(Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1981). 4to, unpag.; saddle-stitched in printed wrappers. One of 130 press-numbered copies, the entire edition, printed by Gabriel Rummonds and Alessandro Zanella as a keepsake from the press. More
London: Edmund Parker, et al, 1740. Fourth Edition. Three vols., 4tos; frontispiece, [i]-xxxii, [1]-608, [16, index, advertisement]; [4], [1]-724, [11, index], [3 blank]; [vi], 1-687, [1, blank], [13, index], [1, blank]; contemporary streaked calf with the Trinity College (Dublin) crest on front and rear covers. The fourth edition of Locke's..... More